COMPLETE SET OF 10 OFFICIAL JAMES "MEREDITH MISSISSIPPI MARCH" CIVIL RIGHTS BUTTONS.
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Winning Bid:
$1,501.79
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
2.25" w/N.G. Slater on curl. James Meredith was in 1962 the first African American student admitted to the segregated University Of Mississippi. Four years later on June 6, 1966 Meredith started a solitary "March Against Fear" for 220 miles beginning in Memphis, TN planning to end in Jackson, MS. Soon after beginning the march he was shot and injured. On hearing the news other civil rights activists including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Martin Luther King and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Stokely Carmichael (and others) decided to continue the march in Meredith's name. Ten days later, still on the march, Carmichael was arrested for trespassing on public property. Upon rejoining the marchers at a camp Carmichael took to the speaker's platform and delivered his famous "Black Power" speech. King, who had gone to Chicago to organize open housing marches, returned to Mississippi on Friday to find that the civil rights movements' divisions between the old guard and the new guard had become public. These buttons were distributed for $1.00 each by organizers. We have encountered the orange and wood grain variety only once and have seen several example of the cream background but the remainder are the first we've seen. A few light gray marks in the background a result of the paper used in production and several have a tiny bump from bar pin construction. All are VF to Exc. A rare chance to obtain a complete set of these historically important buttons.
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